Michael Wright
Vice President - Investment Team at Kleio
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Wright is a vice president on the investment team at Ionic Partners with a decade of experience sourcing, acquiring, and operating enterprise software businesses. He blends hands-on engineering skills—Ruby, SQL, and Rails web development—and practical QA/test-automation contributions to notable open-source tooling like the Flank parallel test runner with private equity deal execution and portfolio management. A Booth MBA and former analyst in algorithmic trading and mezzanine investing, he scouts product-led software targets and helps scale acquired companies from first hire through senior leadership. Based in Chicago, he also founders early-stage vehicle Kleio, combining operator instincts with technical fluency to bridge engineering teams and investment strategy.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at University of VermontMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBachelor of Arts, Economics, Bachelor of Arts, Economics at SUNY Geneseo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
ios10
instrumentation10
android10
test-automation10
testing10
espresso9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Flank/flank
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
:speedboat: Massively parallel Android and iOS test runner for Firebase Test Lab
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 releases, 737 reviews, 88 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily focused on improving the testing framework for Firebase Test Lab. They made various changes to existing test cases, including adding and modifying tests for iOS and Android platforms. This involved improving error messages, validating configurations, and enhancing the overall robustness of the testing process. The user also contributed to refactoring and the addition of features such as parameterization and OBB file handling to existing test infrastructure, ultimately enhancing test coverage and reliability.
gradletest-runneriosrunnerfirebase-test-lab
Sloox/fastSieve
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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